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The Battle for Britain’s First Book of the Month Club

In October 1929 thousands of members of Britain’s Book Society received a new hardback through the post. Whiteoaks, by an

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Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius

By the time Plato departed the court of Dionysius the Younger in 361 BC, his relations with the Syracusan autocrat

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Swahili on the Road | History Today

In March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) – sat down with former

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Renaissance Florence’s Missing Bronzes | History Today

It was the greatest contest in the history of art – and arguably the most mysterious too. The year was

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A Royal Skeleton in the Chapel

In June 1925 a sarcophagus was discovered in Dorset’s Sherborne Abbey and widely reported to be that of ‘Ethelbert’, a

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Politicising Abortion in the United States

Lizzie and Frank Ward started seeing each other in early 1860. They went for walks in the northern Pennsylvania woods,

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Martin Crusius’ Armchair Voyage | History Today

When the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II seized Constantinople in 1453 shockwaves radiated through Christian Europe. According to Pope Pius II,

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Smuggling Under the Cover of Plague

In May 1720 an infected ship from the Levant arrived in Marseilles, bringing with it the last major epidemic of

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The Hidden Death in the Victorian Wallpaper

When it opened in 1881 the comic opera Patience was the first theatrical production in the world to be lit

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Remembering South Vietnam | History Today

In her 2010 memoir Tales from a Mountain City, Quynh Dao – who was 15 at the fall of Saigon